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Dioscoreales

 

Family: Afrothismiaceae1

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Afrothismia baerae Cheek (2004 "2003")   2003 or before  Shimba Hills National Reserve, Kenya Missing Access
             
Afrothismia pachyantha Schltr. (1906)   1905 Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon Extinct Access

1 Cheek, Martin, Gomez, Marybel Soto, Graham, Sean W. and Rudall, Paula J. (2024). Afrothismiaceae (Dioscoreales), a new fully mycoheterotrophic family endemic to tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin 79: 55-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-023-10124-w

 

Family: Burmanniaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Burmannia indica Jonker (1938) - (rediscovered) Idukki district, Kerala, India Rediscovered Access
             

Haplothismia exannulata

Airy Shaw (1952)

-

(rediscovered)

Kerala, India

Rediscovered

Access

             

Marthella trinitatis

(Johow) Urb. (1903) - 1898 Mount Tucuche, Trinidad Missing Access
             

Oxygyne hyodoi

C.Abe & Akasawa (1989) Hina-no-bonbori 9 October 1988 Nishiumi-Cho, Minamiuwa-gun, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan Extinct Access
             

Oxygyne triandra

Schltr. (1906)

-

September 1905

Cameroon

Extinct

Access

             

Thismia americana

N.Pfeiff. (1914)

Banded trinity

1913 or 1914 or 1916

Illinois, USA

Extinct

Access

             

Thismia caudata

Maas & H.Maas (1986)

-

(rediscovered)

Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

Rediscovered

Access

             

Thismia clavigera

(Becc.) F.Muell. (1891)

-

(rediscovered)

Bornean Malaysia & Thailand

Rediscovered

Access

             

Thismia fungiformis

(Taub. ex Warm.) Maas & H.Maas (1986)

-

?

Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

Extinct

Access

             
Thismia gardneriana Hook.f. ex Thwaites (1864) - (rediscovered) Sri Lanka Rediscovered Access
             

Thismia kobensis

Suetsugu (2018)

-

(rediscovered)

Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Honshū, Japan

Rediscovered

Access

             

Thismia macahensis

(Taub. ex Warm.) Hatus. (1976)

-

?

Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

Invalid (junior homonym)

Access

             

Thismia neptunis

Becc. (1878)

-

(rediscovered)

Gunung Matang massif, western Sarawak, Bornean Malaysia

Rediscovered

Access

             

Thismia tuberculata

Hatus. (1976)

-

24 September 1972

Mount Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture / Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan

Extinct

Access

 

 

Family: Dioscoreaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Dioscorea brownii Schinz (1900)   (rediscovered) southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Rediscovered Access
             

Dioscorea buchananii undatiloba

(Baker) Wilkin (2015)

 

1921

Limpopo & KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Missing

Access

             

Dioscorea elephantipes

(L'Hér.) Engl. (1908)

 

(rediscovered)

Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Rediscovered

Access

             

Dioscorea inopinata

Prain & Burkill (1927)

 

(rediscovered)

Thailand

Rediscovered

Access

             

Dioscorea lepcharum

Prain & Burkill (1914)

 

(rediscovered)

Arunachal Pradesh, India Pradesh, India

Rediscovered

Access

             

Rajania prestoniensis

R.Knuth (1924)

 

14 November 1914

Cuba

Invalid (synonym)

Access

 

Family: Nartheciaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile

Aletris makiyataroi

Naruh. (1973) - 1970's Shikoku, Japan Extinct or Invalid (synonym) Access
             
Narthecium montanum (Small) Grey (1938) Appalachian yellow asphodel 1919 Henderson County, North Carolina, USA Extinct Access

 

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